They don't make signs like they used to...

[Rendezvous]

While in Queenstown a while ago, we came across this sign and souvenir shop. I had to ask, what the?

http://mrdj.250free.com/Sign.jpg

[Scottes]

I'm scratching my head on this one.

"What the?" is an appropriate statement.

[JCK]

I really don't see what the problem is. The sign is about little lamb gift your house and the little lamb, and I think waiting so what's the problem?

PS- It's spelled SOUVENIR.

[XXWoodmanXX]

LOL!!!! Sounds like a terrible advertisement for holiday theft.. But, I still laughed. hehehe

[Scottes]

The sign is about little lamb gift your house and the little lamb...

Now I'm more confused.

[PacAce]

The sign is about little lamb gift your house and the little lamb...

Now I'm more confused.

Mary and her little lamb have a gift for you (they bought it at this little souvenir shop in downtown Queenstown). They are waiting in your home for you to arrive so that they can present you with the gift. :mrgreen:

PS, please don't ask me how they got into the house in the first place. :roll:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[FlipsidE]

PS, please don't ask me how they got into the house in the first place. :roll:

Scary...

FlipsidE

[CyberDyneSystems]

"The contents of this website make service offer in Japan now.

The direction which does not understand Japanese well is this advanced ON prohibition."

'nuff said

[PacAce]

"The contents of this website make service offer in Japan now.

The direction which does not understand Japanese well is this advanced ON prohibition."

'nuff said

Makes perfect sense to me. Good thing I understand Japanese. :mrgreen: :lol: :mrgreen:

[Scottes]

"All your base are belong to us."

[IndyJeff]

Mary had a little lamb? Well, that's what she gets for sleeping in the barn!!!

[FlipsidE]

"All your base are belong to us."

LO FREAKIN L!!! So classic.

And for those that haven't seen it yet: http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com.

FlipsidE

[Jesper]

Mary had a little lamb,
little lamb,
little lamb,
Mary and someone in your home
waitin' for you and your GIFTS!

Looks like the sign of a gift shop, and they want you to get in and buy some gifts, so that you can give those gifts to someone at your home who is waiting for them.

More fun here: http://www.engrish.com/

"Spread Beaver... showing the .... area" (http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=spreadbeaver.jpg&category=Adu lt%20Engrish&date=2000-07-02) :shock: :lol:

[roanjohn]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I didn't understand it.......but it was funny as heck!!!

Ro1

[JCK]

The sign is about little lamb gift your house and the little lamb...

Now I'm more confused.

Mary and her little lamb have a gift for you (they bought it at this little souvenir shop in downtown Queenstown). They are waiting in your home for you to arrive so that they can present you with the gift. :mrgreen:

PS, please don't ask me how they got into the house in the first place. :roll:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Good Lord! Where has the sense of sarcasm gone?!!!

[PacAce]

The sign is about little lamb gift your house and the little lamb...

Now I'm more confused.

Mary and her little lamb have a gift for you (they bought it at this little souvenir shop in downtown Queenstown). They are waiting in your home for you to arrive so that they can present you with the gift. :mrgreen:

PS, please don't ask me how they got into the house in the first place. :roll:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Good Lord! Where has the sense of sarcasm gone?!!!

??? ??? ???

[bosamar]

The sign looks like it was made in Japan. I lived in Sasebo (Kyushu) for two years in the 80s. When Japanese translate something into English this is very often the result. You will find countless funny English translations in Japan. Most make no sense at all. At least this one made a "little" sense.

Here are some examples:

- The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem - Feeling Free," got translated in the Japanese market into "When smoking Salem, you feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty".

- Japan's second-largest tourist agency was mystified when it entered English-speaking markets and began receiving requests for unusual sex tours. Upon finding out why, the owners of Kinki Nippon Tourist Company changed its name.

- A warning to motorists in Tokyo: "When a passenger of the foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor.".

- Panasonic developed a complete Japanese Web browser, and to make the system user-friendly, licensed the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker as the "Internet guide." Panasonic eventually planned on a world version of the product. The day before the ads were to be released, Panasonic decided to delay the product launch indefinately. The reason: an American staff member at the internal product launch explained to the stunned and embarrassed Japanese what the ad's slogan, "Touch Woody - The Internet Pecker", might mean to English speakers.

- In a Tokyo bar: Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.

- In a Tokyo hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel toweles please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read this notice.

- In a Japanese hotel room: Please to bathe inside the tub.

- In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

- Diversion sign in Kyushi, Japan: Stop - Drive Sideways.

- English text on products made in Japan solely for Japanese consumers:
Message printed on an eraser: "Mr. Friendly Quality Eraser. Mr. Friendly Arrived!! He always stay near you, and steals in your mind to lead you to a good situation.". On the bottom of the eraser is a further message: "We are ecologically minded. This package will self-destruct in Mother Earth."

- On Coke cans: "I FEEL COKE & SOUND SPECIAL".

- Text on a shopping bag picturing dancing elephants: "ELEPHANT FAMILY ARE HAPPY WITH US. THEIR HUMMING MAKES US FEEL HAPPY."

- Text on a shopping bag showing yachts on a blue sea: "SWITZERLAND: SEASIDE CITY".

- A range of products by a company called Cream Soda used to have the slogan: "Too fast to live, too young to happy".

[roanjohn]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

.........the things you learn in this forum!!

Ro1

[FlyingPete]

The sign looks like it was made in Japan.

Was in Queenstown last year, half the tourists are Japanese, and so are half the souvenir shop owners in fact with all the tourists around (people working there on their OE's etc), I think we were the only Kiwi's!

The place we stayed, the receptionist was from the UK on her OE, the hitchiker we picked up was french, the boat captain in Milford was Scotish, the supermarket guys was Indian and I have already mentioned the souvenir shops!